Greater Jacksonville Open

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Greater Jacksonville Open
Tournament information
Location Lauderhill, Florida
Established1945
Course(s)Inverrary Country Club
Par72
Tour(s) PGA Tour
Format Stroke play
Prize fund US$175,000
Month playedMarch
Final year1976
Tournament record score
Aggregate264 Sam Snead (1946)
To par−24 as above
Final champion
Flag of the United States.svg Hubert Green
Location map
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Inverrary CC
Location in the United States
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Inverrary CC
Location in Florida

The Greater Jacksonville Open was a PGA Tour event that was played from 1945 until 1976.

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Shortly after World War II, the Jacksonville Open began play as a PGA Tour event in Jacksonville, Florida at the Hyde Park Golf Club until it was discontinued in the mid-1950s. In the mid-1960s, the PGA Tour came to town again. This time the event was initially named the Jacksonville Open again and changed for the 1968 event to the Jacksonville Open Invitational. The name was changed to the Greater Jacksonville Open for the 1969 event.

The Greater Jacksonville Open was discontinued after the 1976 tournament when the PGA Tour decided to relocate The Players Championship to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The PGA Tour had been looking for some time for a permanent home for the marquee event which has professional golf's highest prize fund and is sometimes referred to as the "fifth major". The Players Championship had been played at the Atlanta Country Club in Marietta, Georgia in 1974, the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth in 1975 and at the Inverrary Country Club in Ft. Lauderdale in 1976. The Greater Jacksonville Open laid the groundwork and provided much of the infrastructure for the modern Players Championship, which was first played in Ponte Vedra Beach in 1977. [1]

Tournament highlights

Winners

YearWinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runner(s)-up
Greater Jacksonville Open
1976 Flag of the United States.svg Hubert Green (2)276−122 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Miller Barber
1975 Flag of the United States.svg Larry Ziegler 276−122 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Mac McLendon
Flag of the United States.svg Mike Morley
1974 Flag of the United States.svg Hubert Green 276−123 strokes Flag of the United States.svg John Mahaffey
1973 Flag of the United States.svg Jim Colbert 279−91 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Lou Graham
Flag of the United States.svg Johnny Miller
Flag of the United States.svg Dan Sikes
Flag of the United States.svg Jim Wiechers
1972 Flag of England.svg Tony Jacklin (2)283−5Playoff Flag of the United States.svg John Jacobs
1971 Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg Gary Player 281−7Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Hal Underwood
1970 Flag of the United States.svg Don January 279−9Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Dale Douglass
1969 Flag of the United States.svg Raymond Floyd 278−10Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Gardner Dickinson
Jacksonville Open Invitational
1968 Flag of England.svg Tony Jacklin 273−152 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Gardner Dickinson
Flag of the United States.svg Don January
Flag of the United States.svg Chi-Chi Rodríguez
Flag of the United States.svg Doug Sanders
Flag of the United States.svg DeWitt Weaver
Jacksonville Open
1967 Flag of the United States.svg Dan Sikes 279−91 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Bill Collins
1966 Flag of the United States.svg Doug Sanders 273−151 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Gay Brewer
1965 Flag of the United States.svg Bert Weaver 285−31 stroke Flag of New Zealand.svg Bob Charles
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bruce Devlin
Flag of the United States.svg Dave Marr
Flag of the United States.svg Jack Nicklaus
1954–1964: No tournament
1953 Flag of the United States.svg Lew Worsham 272−161 stroke Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jim Ferrier
1952 Flag of the United States.svg Doug Ford 280−8Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Sam Snead
1951 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jim Ferrier 272−1611 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Lloyd Mangrum
Flag of the United States.svg Jack Shields
1950 Flag of the United States.svg Cary Middlecoff (2)279−92 strokes Flag of the United States.svg George Fazio
1949 Flag of the United States.svg Cary Middlecoff 274−102 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Jerry Barber
1948 Flag of the United States.svg Chick Harbert 284−41 stroke Flag of the United States.svg Skip Alexander
Flag of the United States.svg Vic Ghezzi
1947 Flag of the United States.svg Clayton Heafner 281−3Playoff Flag of the United States.svg Lew Worsham
1946 Flag of the United States.svg Sam Snead (2)264−244 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Jimmy Demaret
1945 Flag of the United States.svg Sam Snead 266−224 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Bob Hamilton

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